Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 142 202
Rank change year-on-year -20 +60 -2
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 6 19 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.11% 0.86% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 3.19% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,621 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £66,367 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.43% -2.04% +13.82%
75th Percentile £93,750 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £73,500 £66,367 £65,500
% change year-on-year +10.75% +1.32% +10.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 498 595 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.24% 26.78% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 421 411 946
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% -0.87%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) CICS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) iPaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Hazelcast
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Pega Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JMS
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SOQL
1 2 (33.33%) SOSL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Pega
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce